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Preparations for this year's stratospheric flight of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III have reached an important milestone: today, just three weeks after the hardware arrived at Esrange Space Center near the Arctic Circle in Sweden ...

A star’s magnetic field must be considered in order to correctly determine the characteristics of their exoplanets from observations by space telescopes such as Kepler, James Webb, or PLATO. This is demonstrated by new model calculations presented ...

During its flyby of Venus, the European-Japanese twin space probe Bepi Colombo for the first time found carbon ions escaping from the planet's atmosphere into space. A research group involving the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) ...